Dr. Kangsoo Kim

Biography

Kangsoo Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, and the Director of the Human-X Interaction (HXI) Lab. His research expertise lies in human-computer interaction, with a specific focus on how people engage with immersive Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, a Master’s degree in Electronics Computer Engineering, and a Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in the same field from Hanyang University, South Korea. Prior to his appointment at the University of Calgary, Dr. Kim served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Delaware and the Synthetic Reality Lab at UCF, where he was also affiliated with the College of Nursing. His research integrates qualitative and quantitative methodologies across psychology and engineering, and he develops interactive VR/AR prototypes to investigate human perception and behavior in virtual environments. Dr. Kim has published extensively in top-tier conferences and journals and serves as an Associate Editor for Presence: Virtual and Augmented Reality and as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Virtual Reality. He has received multiple Paper Awards and actively invites students to partake in pioneering inter- and trans-disciplinary research.

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